Detecting breast cancer in a drop of blood

A cancer-screening microarray just one innovation supported by Canadian Cancer Society grants On March 19, 2013, a Montreal research team received $190,000 from the...
March 19, 2013

Mark Wainberg announced as 2012 Premio Venezia laureate

Professor Mark A. Wainberg is one of six laureates of the 2012 Premio Venezia, sponsored by the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada....
March 19, 2013

Innovative device to decrease scar formation

Scars are an inevitable consequence of surgery and trauma that can lead to debilitating physical and psychological consequences. There is no current treatment...
March 19, 2013

Support Your Local Library! Osler Library of the History of Medicine

The Osler Library of the History of Medicine opened in 1929 to house the collection of rare medical and other books donated by...
March 19, 2013

Mark Wainberg honoured with top 2012 Canadian Achievement

Professor Mark Wainberg is one of five Canadians honoured for their 2012 CIHR-CMAJ Top Canadian Achievements in Health Research, sponsored by the Canadian...
March 19, 2013

Dr. Barré-Sinoussi to receive honorary degree

Dr. Barré-Sinoussi, the acting Director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Unit in the Department of Virology at the Institut Pasteur in Paris,...
March 19, 2013

A move to curb India’s TB epidemic

An international health initiative has brokered a landmark accord that aims to halve the price patients pay for advanced tests for tuberculosis that...
March 19, 2013

Update on Budget Cuts

Following the Summit, some media reported that the cuts to Quebec’s universities had been reduced by 75 per cent. This is not the...
March 18, 2013

Jewish General Hospital earns superior rating of 96.7 per cent in official accreditation results

The Jewish General Hospital (JGH) has scored just a few points short of perfection in the official evaluation of its performance by Accreditation...
March 14, 2013

MIMM Bites Newsletter – March 2013

We are pleased to make the March 2013 edition of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology's newsletter available to you online! MIMM Bites...
March 14, 2013

Assemblée générale spéciale : Lancement en septembre 2013 du nouveau programme de cours en éducation médicale pré-doctorale tenue le 4 avril

La Faculté de médecine de l'Université McGill lancera son nouveau programme d’éducation médicale pré-doctorale en septembre 2013. Le programme actuel, qui avait été...
March 12, 2013

Special Town Hall “The new Undergraduate Medical Curriculum launches September 2013” held on April 4

The McGill Faculty of Medicine will launch its new undergraduate medical curriculum in September of 2013. The current curriculum, developed in the 1990s, has been...
March 12, 2013